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From: max@trinity.uucp (Max Hauser)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: radar countermeasures
Message-ID: <1156@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 2 Mar 88 05:07:07 GMT
References: <4596@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <20271@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <912@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <1123@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <305@bacchus.DEC.COM>
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Summary: Best so far

In article <305@bacchus.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
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>One of the guys built what I consider to be the ultimate radar jammer. ...
>His car had a plastic grille. Behind the grille he put a 12-inch
>audio loudspeaker. On the surface of this loudspeaker he had glued several
>thousand copper dipoles, sprinkled at random, that were carefully cut to be
>half-wave (or was it quarter-wave; I can't remember) at police radar
>frequencies. ...

Scattering needles! Marvelous. Shades of Project West Ford (sp?) of the
late 1950s. (Surely even on the Usenet are some who have heard of 
West Ford -- old farts, no doubt...)

It is the most elegant approach I've seen yet to this (increasingly classic)
radar-jamming "problem."

M. Hauser